Setting Static Text Background to MDI Background

[droberson]

I have several static text objects. It would be nice if they has a transparent background properity, but you have to set the background color. I am using the MDI interface and I need to be able at "start of frame or application" to set all static text background colors to the color of the MDI background. How do I do that? Where is the MDI background color pulled from? I want to group all of these objects and set the color with one statement for the group versus using 50 statements.

Some would say just set it to some rgb value but what happens if the background color of the MDI changes. At present the frame is not displayed with MDI turned on. So I cannot tie the background color of the static text objects to the background color of the frame.

Thanks.

[MetalGeo]

Place either an Active System Box or a Background System Box object into the frame (and perhaps hide it). You can retreive system colors using the expressions. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[droberson]

Well, it sort of works. Here is what I did and the problem.
1. I selected all of the static text objects and set a qualifier for them. In other words I grouped them.
2. I added a background system object.
3. I selected the condition "Start of Frame"
4. I set an action of "set background color of the qualifer group (my static text objects) to MDIBackground("background system box")" This should make the background of the text object a dark gray to match the dark gray of the MDI window.

Problem: My static text color is black and the background is black. But the background of the MDI windows is dark gray.
So I get big blocks of black where the static text is.

Any suggestions????

[droberson]

OK, I got this to work. I had to use the "convert system color to rgb" and then get the mdi background color. That seems to fix the problem. Thanks for the suggestion and help.